The zoological documentary National Geographic: Prehistoric Predators transports audiences innumerable millennia back in time to the Earth's Ice Age, when massive carnivorous predators including the dire wolf, the sabertooth cat and the short-faced bear roamed the face of the planet. In addition to recreating this prehistoric world onscreen for viewers, the program poses the question of why these magnificent beasts (who once freely exerted power and terror over lesser members of the animal kingdom) suffered from rapid ...
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The zoological documentary National Geographic: Prehistoric Predators transports audiences innumerable millennia back in time to the Earth's Ice Age, when massive carnivorous predators including the dire wolf, the sabertooth cat and the short-faced bear roamed the face of the planet. In addition to recreating this prehistoric world onscreen for viewers, the program poses the question of why these magnificent beasts (who once freely exerted power and terror over lesser members of the animal kingdom) suffered from rapid extinction, while smaller and seemingly more vulnerable species persisted. Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Prehistoric Predators features fossil carnivores from the Rancho La Brea tar pits of Los Angeles, California. The three documentaries focus on the sabertoothed cat Smilodon fatalis, the dire wolf Canis dirus, and the short-faced bear Arctodus. The documentaries combine bone analysis with computer animations of the carnivores attacking prey animals and confronting each other. There have been 2,500 sabertooth cat fossil finds at Rancho La Brea, suggesting that the animals lived in some type of social group. Smilodon fatalis' thick bone structure, body proportions, and manner of movement are viewed as more like those of a black bear than modern big cats. The seven-inch canines of Smilodon fatalis were twice as long as the canines of Homotherium. Bone analysis by Paul Matheus of the University Of Alaska shows that Homotherium was eating mainly mammoths. Computer reconstructions of the jaws of Smilodon fatalis and the modern lion shows that the lion has more biting force. There have been more than 3,500 dire wolf fossil finds at Rancho La Brea, while there have been only fifteen gray wolf fossil finds. The bones of the dire wolf and the gray wolf are compared and contrasted with the dire wolf having thicker, larger bones and teeth. Bone analysis by Paul Matheus of the University Of Alaska shows that the short-faced bear ate only meat from a variety of prey animals. Because the short-faced bear's strangely-thin leg bones could not deal with the great forces of explosively-fast, curving chases, the bear is viewed as the ultimate scavenger, stealing kills from big cats and dire wolves. The short-faced bear's large nasal opening in the skull is viewed as giving it a smelling range of six miles when contrasted with the smaller nasal opening of the grizzly bear, which has a smelling range of 3-4 miles.
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